ARTIST OF THE DAY
The City Harmonic
In 2011, a band hailing from Ontario, Canada made a tremendous splash into the United States. Their debut album Introducing The City Harmonic featured a hit song that captivated the American Christian radio audience and scored a surprise late hit. The song was Manifesto. That one track soared to #5 on iTunes and swiftly got over 1 million hits on YouTube. Before the end of 2011, The City Harmonic became the best selling new artist on Billboard’s Top Current Digital Sales Chart.
The band's first full-length album I Have A Dream has already conquered the airwaves with hit songs like the title track, Mountaintop and Holy (Wedding Day). It'd be one thing if their popularity was fueled simply by their creative piano driven rock sound, but it's the lyrical depth that gives the band staying power. Many times, taken directly from scripture and constantly surging towards moments of worship - The City Harmonic's songs have been called "a roadmap with only one route, to sum up the journey of faith and mystery."
“Being a Christian now is more difficult than it was 200 years ago,” Elias Dummer says of the thematic trail. “We face tragedy at every turn because of the way our media and culture operates. The stories of this world have let us down. Politics have let us down. We try to cope with it by becoming apathetic or by hiding in the Christian bubble—some altered version of the American dream where living for Christ leads to personal comfort— even misguided Christian stories can let us down and this is the tension of the world we live in. Christianity isn’t a tool to escape suffering, it’s a lens by which we understand it and the means by which we live through it. Our culture is built on the notion that our spirituality can be compartmentalized but, simply put, the Christian story isn’t. We can go from mountaintop to valley in the span of a day, and in the midst of that valley Christ calls us to love our neighbors, our enemies, just as if we were with them on the mountaintop. Apathy may be a natural result of today’s broken world, but the Christian story is that Christ is redeeming his creation and we have a role to play as the body of Christ.”
The band is chronicling their recording process on their Instragram account. And having a lot of fun doing it, I might add.
The City Harmonic is:
Elias Dummer
Eric Fusilier (Who recently beat ALL cancer!)
Aaron Powell
Josh Vanderlaan
Album: I Have A Dream (This Feels Like Home)
Twitter: @TheCityHarmonic
Instagram: CLICK 4 PICS
Tour: CLICK HERE
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Video: Holy (Wedding Day)
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SCRIPTURAL PURSUIT
Q: What was Nehemiah's job in the Persian palace?
A. King's cupbearer
B. Chariot mechanic
C. Court jester
A: King's cupbearer.
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